Patentability of life and ethics

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 326, Issue 10-11, 2003, Pages 1127-1134

  Lenoir, Noëlle ^a  

^a European Union   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ethics; Genome; Invention; Life; Patent law

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; GENOME; LEGISLATION;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EUROPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATENT; POLICY; SCIENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346491721     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2003.09.016     Document Type: Article

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